=ACTIVITY TITLE: IS IT ALIVE?

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Activity Overview:
Do you know the difference between the terms living and nonliving? Let's use the Bee-Bots to determine how much you know!

Activity Objectives: Using the Bee-Bots, students will distinguish which pictures contain images of objects that are alive.

Concepts Addressed:
* Review criteria to decide if something is living or nonliving.
* Identify a particular organism or object as living or nonliving.
* Recognize that living things grow, reproduce, react to the environment, have cells and need food, air, and water.
* Understands vocabulary
living
nonliving = never alive
not living = once alive, now dead

Extensions/Adaptations: Have students take the online picture quiz found under web resources.

Literature:
Living Things
by Sally Hewitt
PUBLISHER:STARGAZER PUBLISHING COMPANY
©2007
ISBN-10 1596040823
ISBN-13 9781596040823
FORMAT Hardcover
PAGES 32
PUBLISHED 08/01/2006
FICTION

Is It Alive Big Book


Web Resources:
Living vs. None Living Picture Quiz
Teacher's Domain Lesson Plan
NEISD Lesson Plan
Wikipedia
Britannica
Teaching Online: Science Lesson Plan

Materials needed: Grid, pictures of objects that are living and non-living

Samples/photos/handouts:
Living vs. Nonliving handout